Richard Price Research Articles

Coleridge and ‘the general taste for unconnected writing’

This article explores various literary, social and political implications of Coleridge’s admiration of late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English prose style in the first two decades of the nineteenth century, at which time he detected ‘a passion for the unconnected’ in contemporary writing. In The Friend, Coleridge conceived syntactical connection as a hallmark of good method and rigorous thinking—qualities he believed to be in short supply in the political imagination around 1810. During the Napoleonic Wars, he hoped the structure as well as the content of his periodical would encourage unity and rejuvenate public taste by protecting it from the insidious effects of a fragmentary style which he perceived to be French in origin. He extended this aspiration to Wordsworth’s Cintra pamphlet. The emphasis which Edmund Burke placed on the relationship between syntax and the social contract in his denunciation of Richard Price provided a model for Coleridge’s interest in joined-up thinking as a sign of a healthy Constitution and also contributed to his misgivings about the style of Addison’s Spectator. For Coleridge, it was the syntactical order underlying long or complex sentences—as found in The Friend and Cintra in the former instance and Thomas Browne in the latter—which best announced a socio-political, religious or poetic vision capable of looking beyond itself. The same conviction informed Coleridge’s defence of exuberance in his Shakespeare criticism, which safeguarded his own digressive practice whilst consolidating his faith in a prose style loyal first to the rectitude of its own ambitions rather than to the universal requirement to be obvious.

Joseph Priestley on metaphysics and politics: Jonathan Israel's ‘Radical Enlightenment’ reconsidered

ABSTRACTThis article probes Jonathan Israel’s theory about ‘Radical Enlightenment’ inaugurating political modernity by way of explicating the thought of Joseph Priestley. In Israel’s view, despite the inconsistencies plaguing Socinian thought, Priestley, a monist, emerged as an ardent supporter of religious toleration and democratic republicanism. This article seeks to restore the fundamental coherence of Priestley’s theological and metaphysical views, arguing that they were produced as parts of a system founded on the simultaneous adherence to providentialism and necessitarianism. Prized as a prerequisite of the unfolding of the divine plan, the unobstructed expression of religious opinions was the centre of the conception of civil society and civil liberty that Priestley articulated based on these premises and his forays into politics aimed to secure its permanence. A comparison of Priestley’s stance on the issue of manhood suffrage with that of Richard Price reveals not the materialist Priestley, but Price, a dualist, as an advocate of democratization and casts into doubt the applicability of Israel’s scheme in the case of England. The article closes with some suggestions towards reappraising the relationship between Enlightenment and modernity.

Jonathan Israel. The Expanding Blaze: How the American Revolution Ignited the World, 1775–1848.

Jonathan Israel’s revolutionary world pits democrats against aristocrats. The Expanding Blaze, the sixth of Israel’s monumental volumes on Enlightenment and revolution, chronicles the evolution of this rift, from the American Revolution to the revolutions of 1848. In the American Revolution, as in the Enlightenment that inspired it and the revolutions that followed from it, Israel sees radical republican democrats challenging monarchy, aristocracy, and religion. Thomas Paine’s “radical, universalist, revolutionary” Common Sense (1776), conceived in the spirit of Denis Diderot and the abbé de Raynal, emboldened the “transatlantic intelligentsia,” led by Thomas Jefferson and composed of Benjamin Franklin, Richard Price, Joseph Priestley, Joel Barlow, Jacques-Pierre Brissot de Warville, the Marquis de Condorcet, the Marquis de Lafayette, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Arthur Lee, Francisco de Miranda, and Philip Mazzei, among others, to seize the opportunity of beginning the world anew in 1776 (49, 9). On the other side of the ideological duel, moderate revolutionaries John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, Robert R. Livingston, and Gouverneur Morris, all of whom exalted in the legacy of John Locke and the seventeenth-century English revolutions, venerated a mixed government that compromised with aristocracy, monarchy, and religion.

The right of resistance in Richard Price and Joseph Priestley

ABSTRACTThis article is concerned with the writings on resistance by Richard Price and Joseph Priestley, the leaders of the Rational Dissenters who supported the American and French Revolutions, from the late 1760s to 1791. The article discusses the differences between Rational Dissent and mainstream (Court) Whig resistance theory, as regards history in particular: the Dissenters viewed the Glorious Revolution as a lost opportunity rather than a full triumph and claimed the heritage of the Puritan opposition to Charles I, some of them justifying the regicide. Price's and Priestley's views on resistance are assessed against the benchmark of John Locke's conception of the breach of trust. While both thinkers presented themselves as followers of Locke, they departed from his thought by their emphasis on the constantly active role of the people. Each in their own way, they also argued that early, possibly peaceful, resistance was preferable to violent resistance as a last resort against a tyranny. In the end, Price and Priestley each articulated an original theory derived from Locke; their views were very close and their main difference concerned the treatment of history, Price's caution contrasting with Priestley's justification of tyrannicide.

Aquele evento, esta memória: notas sobre a antropologia das diásporas africanas no Novo Mundo

Neste artigo de 1991, David Scott analisa importantes marcos da antropologia estadunidense acerca dos povos de ascendência africana no Novo Mundo: o trabalho de Melville Herskovits, nos anos 1920 a 1940, e o de Richard Price, nos anos 1970 e 1980 – dando ênfase às pesquisas de ambos entre os Saamaka do Suriname, que figuram como “uma espécie de metonímia antropológica” nas discussões sobre a diáspora africana nas Américas. Scott buscará compreender como a “ciência da cultura” fundada por Boas construiu “o Negro do Novo Mundo” como objeto teórico e passou a fornecer o vocabulário autorizado capaz de identificá-lo e de representá-lo. O autor tece críticas ao modo como tal antropologia constrói uma narrativa de continuidades entre memórias precisas no presente e os tropos “África” e “escravidão” em passados autênticos e verificáveis, para depois propor aquelas que considera serem as tarefas teóricas adequadas para o complexo campo discursivo da “tradição”.

Richard Price, the First Bayesian

Roughly half of Bayes’s famous essay was written by Richard Price, including the Appendix with all of the numerical examples. A study of this Appendix reveals Price (1) unusually for the time, felt it necessary to allow in his analysis for a hypothesis having been suggested by the same data used in its analysis, (2) was motivated (covertly in 1763, overtly in 1767) to undertake the study to refute David Hume on miracles, and (3) displayed a remarkable sense of collegiality in scientific controversy that should stand as a model for the present day. Price’s analysis of the posterior in one particular example, including locating the posterior median and giving and interpreting credible regions, qualifies him as the first person to apply Bayes’s theory.

War, public debt and Richard Price's Rational Dissenting radicalism

The sources and nature of ‘radicalism’ in late eighteenth-century Britain have long been debated. At the same time, the impact of war on British politics, society and culture in this period has been underappreciated until recently. While war is recognized as having aided the spread of popular loyalism, its role in stimulating radicalism has been neglected. Based on study of the publications and letters of Richard Price (1723–91), this article highlights the influence of Anglo-French rivalry and war on the thought of a leading Rational Dissenter and champion of political reform.

Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism: Reconceiving the Philosophy of Religion by Louise Hickman

Reviewed by: Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism: Reconceiving the Philosophy of Religion by Louise Hickman Martha K. Zebrowski Louise Hickman. Eighteenth-Century Dissent and Cambridge Platonism: Reconceiving the Philosophy of Religion. Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Religion 16. New York: Routledge, 2017. Pp. x + 212. Cloth, $140.00. Plato and Platonism held a significant place in British intellectual inquiry in the eighteenth century. Louise Hickman enters this largely unexplored territory with a valuable study of select elements in the theological and political arguments of certain British divines. She is particularly concerned to expose the limitations of familiar and narrowly-rational arguments that in the eighteenth century supported natural religion and theology, and to bring to the fore a countervailing rational theology that discovers in and for the human mind the eternal and immutable truth that is divine. The principal figure in Hickman’s study is Richard Price, rational dissenting minister, friend of liberty and America, and author of The Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1758; important third edition, 1787). With Plato in hand, Price put forward an argument for the existence of a divine first principle that is Mind, or truth itself, and an explanation of the power of the human mind to know this truth. Hickman explores Price in relation to a variety of figures engaged with theology, literature, and politics. Price had interests in common with the seventeenth-century theologians known as the Cambridge Platonists, and he comfortably drew ideas on moral epistemology from one in particular, Ralph Cudworth, author of The True Intellectual System of the Universe (1678) and A Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality (1731). With the Latitudinarian theologian Samuel Clarke, author of A Discourse concerning the Being and Attributes of God (1705) and A Discourse concerning the Unchangeable Obligations of Natural Religion (1706), Price shared an understanding that the divine first principle acts not in accordance with mere power and will, but solely in accordance with unalterable truth. In A Free Discussion of the Doctrines of Materialism, and Philosophical Necessity (1778), Price debated his friend Joseph Priestley, the religious and political radical with whom he disagreed about the material and spiritual aspects of the universe and the human mind, and about the value of Plato. And he befriended Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), who inclined toward Plato and, like Price himself, insisted that moral value is fundamental to the cosmos. Hickman certainly adds to scholarly understanding of the history of the Platonic tradition. Yet, it is important to recognize that, indebted to Plato though they were, the figures she studies had a quite narrow interest in and understanding of Plato and Platonism. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, no one in Britain took up Plato as an historical philologist or historian of the Platonic tradition. When Thomas Stanley put together The History of Philosophy (1655), rather than explain Plato’s complete system, he simply and uncritically included the mid-second century Didaskalikos of Alcinous as a precis. With little attention to the entirety of Plato’s philosophy, or awareness of the generations of Platonic successors and the variety of their own ideas, Cudworth, Clarke, and Price drew loosely from the Phaedrus, Euthyphro, Theaetetus, Republic, and Laws, and also from the Didaskalikos. In fact, Price’s conception of Mind, the divine first principle, owes more to the reflections of Alcinous on the Timaeus than to Plato himself. British Platonists of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries who worked in the tradition of Platonism were Platonists in a strictly limited sense. They embraced Plato as a forebear and authority, but they were strategic and selective in what they took from him. There is much to appreciate in this study. Hickman’s explanation of eighteenth-century arguments for the existence of God that claimed the status of scientific proof and justified belief in God on just such scientific grounds is useful. So, too, is her exposure of the often unrecognized political contexts and implications of theological inquiry that entailed the endorsement of both divine and secular power and will as the source and foundation of moral right and order. Clarke and Price offered the clear alternative of...

What Should Be Done? Pragmatic Constructivist Ethics and the Responsibility to Protect

AbstractIn this paper I examine what constructivist approaches to IR tell us about how states should act when confronted by atrocity crimes in the context of a politically pluralist international society. Building on the work of theorists who responded to Richard Price and Christian Reus-Smit's call to substantiate the constructivist's claim to explain “moral progress,” and to better inform normative assessments, I claim that the constructivist emphasis on historical and social contingency does not rule out ethical standpoints, suggesting instead a “pragmatic” ethic. Norms are hypotheses rather than absolute values. The task of the pragmatic constructivist is not to establish beyond doubt the normativity of a norm—the task is to test the norm for how well its “meaning-in-use” supports action that ameliorates lived social problems. Pragmatic constructivists can commit to the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as an idea that might reconcile various communities of normative practice and ameliorate vulnerability without upsetting international order. To the extent particular practices (e.g., prevention) have proven (and continue to prove) useful in doing this, pragmatic constructivists can equate the institutionalization of those practices with normative progress. However, R2P is a “complex” norm. It recognizes that knowledge of how to respond to ongoing atrocity is context specific and cannot therefore be fixed. The task of the pragmatic constructivist here is to assess the practical judgment of those that claim to speak for the norm by weighing the consequences of acting out their prescription in the specific context of a particular crisis. I test the meanings of R2P in use during the Syria crisis from 2011 to 2012. R2P was problematic to the extent certain meanings reinforced policy ends (e.g., protection through political/criminal accountability) that were impractical and pursued at the expense of non-ideal but realizable goals (e.g., protection through peace/aid).

The #AustralianBeachspace Project: Examining Opportunities for Research Dissemination Using Instagram

The #AustralianBeachspace Project: Examining Opportunities for Research Dissemination Using Instagram

The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649. Translated with notes by Richard Price, with contributions by Phil Booth and Catherine Cubitt.

The Acts of the Lateran Synod of 649. Translated with notes by Richard Price, with contributions by Phil Booth and Catherine Cubitt.

Richard Price to become the new editor of the American Journal of Physics

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Lutheran Patristic Catholicity: The Vincentian Canon and the Consensus Patrum in Lutheran Orthodoxy. By Quentin D.Stewart. Pp. 217. LIT Verlag,Münster, 2015, $30.21.

The Heythrop JournalVolume 57, Issue 2 p. 443-444 BOOK REVIEW Lutheran Patristic Catholicity: The Vincentian Canon and the Consensus Patrum in Lutheran Orthodoxy. By Quentin D. Stewart. Pp. 217. LIT Verlag, Münster, 2015, $30.21. Richard Price, Richard Price Heythrop CollegeSearch for more papers by this author Richard Price, Richard Price Heythrop CollegeSearch for more papers by this author First published: 27 January 2016 https://doi.org/10.1111/heyj.71_12316Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Volume57, Issue2March 2016Pages 443-444 RelatedInformation

Social network launches bid to get academics chattering about papers online

Richard Price, the chief executive officer of academia.edu, explains his plans to shake up online peer-feedback.

Nature's Man: Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical AnthropologyMaurizioValsaniaCharlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.

Nature's Man: Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical Anthropology Maurizio Valsania Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2013.Maurizio Valsania describes central core of Nature's Man: Thomas Jefferson's Philosophical Anthropology presenting Jefferson's philosophical anthropology concretely, (Chapter Two) forming body (Jefferson's Communitarianism) cannot be split, and which two limbs are attached: theoretical (Chapter One) and (Chapter Three) consequences of communitarianism (10). Drawing on Carl Degler's image of past a jigsaw puzzle with missing pieces yet be added, Valsania views the past a series of layers and possibilities allowing multiple interpretations (11). To understand Jefferson's moral coherence, important words, capable of being defined in many ways, must be perfectly calibrated (8). book treats operative conceptual terms metaphors and descriptors that do not refer an absolute but should be treated as containers where content and meaning have be drawn each time from context (9). While preliminary chapter examines Jefferson's modernity, individualism, and degree of his break with tradition, Chapter Two presents Jefferson's complex communitarianism, and Chapter Three complicates modern readers' negative understanding of Jefferson's brutal system of exclusion (151).Jefferson inherited an extended cultural environment that included seventeenth century and intellectual hegemony (8) of eighteenth century. For his definition of modernity, and his understanding of communitarianism, he was indebted (47) many for his ideas, including Francis Bacon, Isaac Newton, and John Locke, earning epitaph of trinity of immortals by Jefferson (22), pessimist Thomas Hobbes (21), moralists Francis Hutcheson, Thomas Reid, Lord Karnes, and Richard Price (47), and much farther back, Jesus of first century C.E., epistemological sens ism from many, including Greek Epicurus, eighteenth century Condillac, La Mettrie, Helvetius, Diderot, and d' Holbach. Valsania says culture has marched consistently toward individualism (30), and Jefferson, framed within a society that was typically in-between [old and new (40)] evidences a paradox of and traditionalism (6). Traditionalism held a strong link between God and humans (13); modernity, on other hand, rebutted traditional hierarchy [humans higher than animals, man superior women, whites over blacks, pope over king, and kings and nobles over common sort (14)], and drove in direction of science and naturalism, and imbricated [human beings] in animality (5). Jefferson, nonetheless, like other eighteenth century figures, tried to turn tide of Enlightenment in direction of a modernized, minimalized Christianity (39). Thus, he viewed human beings naturalized and materialized (39), but, at same time, humans have implanted in their breasts... a moral sense (21) that becomes a foundation for morality. The postulate of a physical-moral parallelism [a moral sense] provided starting point Jefferson's moral reasoning and, more generally, one basis of his modernity (23). …

Book Review: The Disciples’ Call: Theologies of Vocation from Scripture to the Present Day

The Disciples' Call: Theologies of Vocation from Scripture the Present Day. Edited by Christopher Jamison osb. New York: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2014. viii + 247 pp. $24.95 (paper).While almost all mainline churches in North America and Western Europe have in recent decades experienced declining numbers of people expressing a vocation the priesthood or the religious life, the Roman Catholic Church in England has suffered than most, with a precipitous fall in entrants English seminaries, from approximately one hundred and fifty entrants a year in 1980 twenty-two in 2001. Yet there is little hint in this set of essays (formed mainly of English Catholic voices, though also receiving North American and European contributions) of the trauma or soulsearching with regard the idea of vocation that this decline has induced in certain other contexts. Instead, the volume confidently gives a historicallyinformed, theologically-nuanced, and attractive articulation of a broader notion of vocation as lying at the heart of the mission of all the people of God, and explores how this may find contemporary expression.Historical understandings of vocation are explored by a number of essays in the first half of the volume. John Hemers survey of some of the most well-known biblical narratives of Gods call individuals contains a number of reflections or comparisons which would enrich sermons or short reflections on the passages. Richard Price argues that the monastic writers of the early church did not hold an understanding of a vocation the religious life, but simply saw monasticism as the opportunity respond more fully and effectively than is possible in the world Christ's call all people to repent and follow the Gospel (p. 40). Working in constructive mode, Gemma Simmonds ably demonstrates how Ignatius of Loyola's Spiritual Exercises may fruitfully serve as a model for the path of call, desire, response, confusion, and eventual clarity that may be the experience of many Christians discerning their particular vocation.The essays in the second half of the volume focus on the narrow conception of vocation the priesthood and the religious life. Cathy Jones's essay may helpfully remind readers in Anglican contexts of the vast range of expressions of religious life-and accordingly of ecclesial vocations-that exist in the Catholic Church. Yet she also highlights the immense challenges in attracting new members faced by many forms of non-clerical religious life with identities that are less distinct from secular consecration. This is hardly surprising, she suggests: while personal encounter with a religious community is one of the most important pathways into helping individuals recognize a vocation live according the charism of a particular religious community, those communities with a strong expression of the distinctive nature of religious life are likely flourish in future. …

Editorial introductions

Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS was launched in 2006. It is one of a successful series of review journals whose unique format is designed to provide a systematic and critical assessment of the literature as presented in the many primary journals. The fields of HIV and AIDS are divided into nine sections that are reviewed once a year. Each section is assigned a Section Editor, a leading authority in the area, who identifies the most important topics at that time. Here we are pleased to introduce the Section Editors for this issue. SECTION EDITORS Christopher PowerChristopher PowerChristopher Power, BSc, MD, FRCPC is a Professor of Neurology at the University of Alberta, Canada, holds a Canada Research Chair in Neurologic Infection and Immunity and is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences. He received a BSc. (Hons.) from the University of Toronto and an M.D. from the University of Ottawa and subsequent training in medicine and neurology at McMaster University and the University of Western Ontario, Canada, respectively, with a postdoctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, USA, and the National Institutes of Health in neurovirology and neuroimmunology. Dr Power is an internationally recognized clinician-scientist, focused on the causes and potential treatments of neuroinflammatory diseases including Multiple Sclerosis and NeuroAIDS. Aside from directing the Laboratory for Neurologic Infection and Immunity, he is also an attending consultant in the University of Alberta HIV and MS Clinics together with (interim) Director of the University of Alberta MS Centre. He is the author of over 150 peer-reviewed publications, 20 book chapters with accumulative h index of 45. Bruce J. BrewBruce J. BrewBruce J. Brew is Professor of Medicine (Neurology) at the University of New South Wales and the University of Notre Dame, Australia and is on the staff at St Vincent's Hospital in the departments of Neurology and HIV. He is also the Director of the Applied Neurosciences Program and Peter Duncan Neurosciences Unit in St Vincent's Centre for Applied Medical Research. He graduated from the University of Sydney, Australia, with Honours, joined the residency program at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Sydney and completed his training in Neurology at St Vincent's Hospital. He then spent three years in New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre in New York, USA, working on the neurological aspects of HIV disease with Richard Price. Subsequently he returned to Sydney to take up his current positions at St Vincent's Hospital Sydney, Australia. He has had a long standing interest in HIV neuropathogenesis particularly in relation to cognitive impairment at both clinical and basic science levels. He has designed and participated in numerous clinical trials related to HIV brain disease. He has been an invited participant in educational courses for the American Academy of Neurology and the World Congress of Neurology for several years. He has received research funding from governmental bodies in Australia (NHMRC) and USA (NIH), as well as industry. He sits on the editorial board of several journals and is a regular reviewer for AIDS, JAMA, Neurology and other journals. He has served on numerous advisory boards for pharmaceutical companies and governmental bodies nationally and internationally. He is on the CROI scientific committee and the Neurology substudy committee of INSIGHT. He has authored 330 papers and three textbooks including the single authored text HIV Neurology.

Rationalism vs. Sentimentalism: Reviewing Price's Review

This paper revisits Richard Price’s Review of the Principal Questions in Morals (1757/1787). Price was a defender of rationalism about ethics and he anticipated many views and arguments that became ...

Practical Applications of Do You Know What’s in Your Benchmark?

While building benchmarks against which to measure their portfolios can be a straightforward process for most practitioners, this isn’t the case for managers of illiquid portfolios. Practitioners and academics may be unknowingly exposing themselves to problematic assumptions contained in the underlying benchmark return methodology used by the <b>Center for Research in Security Prices (CRSP)</b>. This <b><i>Practical Applications</i></b> report highlights three main problems identified by the authors of <b><i>Do You Know What’s in Your Benchmark?</i></b>, from the Spring 2013 issue of <b><i>The Journal of Portfolio Management</i></b>. “These current issues with the benchmarks weren’t necessarily relevant when CRSP started in the sixties,” <b>Richard Price</b>, Assistant Professor of accounting at the <b>John S. Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University</b>, says in an interview. Prices co-authored the article with <b>Steven Crawford</b>, Assistant Professor of accounting at <b>Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business</b> in Houston and <b>James Hansen</b>, Assistant Professor of accounting at the <b>University of New Mexico’s Anderson School of Management</b>. <b>TOPICS:</b>Financial crises and financial market history, exchange-traded funds and applications, real estate

Richard Price’s Lower East Side: Cops, culture and gentrification

Abstract This article interrogates the dominant cultural narrative of gentrification and its deployment and resignification by Richard Price’s novel Lush Life (2008), set in the historic immigrant neighbourhood of the Lower East Side in 2002. Drawing upon theories of urban development and urban history by Neil Smith, Liz Bondi, Christopher Mele and Richard Lloyd, this article argues that Lush Life (2008) dramatizes the violent underpinnings of gentrification. At the same time, Price’s text ironizes contemporary urban redevelopment strategies that resignify and market gritty subcultural and ethnic differences as style in the service of real-estate speculation. What Price’s novel endeavours to show is that in the midst of disorienting social and physical change, urban subjects construct psychogeographies that reinforce personal and social boundaries. They gravitate towards residual signifiers of history and ethnic identification, which capitalist development itself unearths and reanimates, believing they might hold the key to establishing a stabilizing geographical rootedness at the very moment that dominant cultural and physical meanings of place are being upended.